Mark Samuels

Mark Samuels (1967–2023) was a British author of horror and fantastic fiction in the tradition of Arthur Machen and H. P. Lovecraft. His fiction was first published in 1988, and many of his early short stories are set in a shadowy modern London in which the protagonists gradually discover a dark and terrifying reality behind the mundane urban world. Thomas Ligotti wrote of Samuels's first short story collection, The White Hands (2003), that it is "a treasure and a genuine contribution to the real history of weird fiction".